First up this week is a team led by Shook, Hardy & Bacon partner Ryan Dykal that won a nine-digit verdict last week for client Touchstream Technologies Inc. against Google Inc. Jurors in Waco, Texas found that Google's Chromecast devices infringed three Touchstream patents and awarded nearly $339 million in damages, having also sided with Touchstream on the patents' validity. Touchstream presented evidence at trial that it developed and patented its "casting" technology prior to meeting with Google in December 2011. Google told Touchstream it wasn't interested in partnership before launching its own Chromecast product line in 2013. The trial team also included Shook's Jordan Bergsten, Lauren Douville and Gary Miller with partners Rob Reckers and Sharon Israel supporting the trial team on strategy and the appellate record. 

Also landing a runner-up spot is a team at Hunton Andrews Kurth led by partner Mike Edney that secured a Fifth Circuit ruling blocking an order from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission threatening to shut down PredictIt, an online political prediction market. PredictIt, which was launched in 2014 by academics in New Zealand as a research data-gathering tool, allows people to make small investments based on predicting political events. It initially operated under a "no-action letter" from the CFTC that the agency rescinded last year. Last week's ruling from a divided Fifth Circuit panel found that PredictIt is entitled to a preliminary injunction while the lower court evaluates its challenge to the CFTC's actions. The Hunton team also includes associates Pierce Lamberson, Cameron Davis and Mike Dingman.

Runners-up honors also go to Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison partners Karen Dunn, Bill Isaacson and Jessica Phillips and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius partner Ben Smith who led the trial team representing Oracle Corp. in the latest chapter of its long-running copyright feud with Rimini Street Inc. and its CEO Seth Ravin. After a 11-day bench trial last year, Chief Judge Miranda Du in Las Vegas this week issued a whopping 197-page order finding that Oracle "mostly" prevailed on its copyright claims regarding Rimini's unauthorized copying of Oracle's enterprise software—specifically Oracle's PeopleSoft and Database products. Oracles team also won an injunction ordering their opponents to issue a press release headlined "Court-Ordered Statement Regarding Rimini Street's False and Misleading Statements" and post the list of 15 statements identified by the court to a company website without "other statements or qualifying information by Rimini."